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Asked: 2026-06-12T12:21:59+00:00

I am pulling a column in an existing script into my template files, and

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I am pulling a column in an existing script into my template files, and everything is working great.

The only problem is, that this script has a column called order, and every row then has a number in that column to show which should be at the top etc. If I set my query to “ORDER BY name” for example, everything works fine, but when I use “ORDER BY order“, then I get a SQL error.
Can I not have a column called order? I can’t change column name, because it’s part of the script.

Is there a way around it?

This is the line in my SQL query:

SELECT * FROM categories WHERE hide = 0 ORDER BY order
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  1. Editorial Team

    order is a keyword in SQL. So if you wish to use a keyword as a name, use backtick characters around it:

    SELECT * FROM categories WHERE hide = 0 ORDER BY `order`

    Try that 🙂

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